100+ Brainy Quotes to Spark Your Mind & Inspire Greatness

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“Man is the measure of all things.” – Protagoras

“I think, therefore I am.” – René Descartes

“Nothing in nature is by chance… chance is the pseudonym of God when He does not want to sign.” – Charles Caleb Colton

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” – Buddha

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.” – Augustine of Hippo

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” – Albert Einstein

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” – Carl Sagan

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We are made of star-stuff.” – Carl Sagan

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein

“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In science, there is no 'why,' only 'how.'” – Larry Niven

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Albert Einstein

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein

“A fact is a confirmed observation. A theory is an explanation for a set of observations.” – Stephen Hawking

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.” – Stephen Hawking

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – Jane Austen

“To be or not to be, that is the question.” – William Shakespeare

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” – Rudyard Kipling

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” – Buddha

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” – Bruce Lee

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” – Thomas Edison

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” – Albert Einstein

“The only mystery in life is why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.” – Al McGuire

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.” – Woody Allen

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.” – Terry Pratchett

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.” – Unknown

“I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.” – Unknown

“I’m not lazy, I’m in energy-saving mode.” – Unknown

“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” – Steven Wright

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” – Pablo Picasso

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay

“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.” – Orson Scott Card

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

“To create one’s world takes courage.” – Lorraine Hansberry

“Art challenges technology; technology inspires the art.” – John Lasseter

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.” – William Blake

“Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while working.” – Henri Matisse

“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

“The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.” – John C. Maxwell

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” – Japanese Proverb

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—that’s your reality.” – Henry Ford

“Your mindset determines your success more than your talent.” – Carol Dweck

“Growth begins where comfort ends.” – Neale Donald Walsch

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” – John Muir

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Knowledge is power.” – Francis Bacon

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” – B.B. King

“Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” – Henry Ford

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” – Abigail Adams

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes

“Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” – Henri Bergson

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins

“We are born alone, live alone, die alone. Only through love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone.” – Orson Welles

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.” – Viktor E. Frankl

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca

“The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.” – Albert Camus

“What matters in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others.” – Nelson Mandela

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” – Carrie Fisher

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor E. Frankl